Blogger's Insult Earns Him 4 Years

[Article] A former student of al-Azhar University in Egypt received a four year sentence for speaking out against the institution and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Abdel Kareem Soliman (22), writing as Kareem Amer, is not the only Egyptian blogger to be detained by the government but he is the first to be prosecuted for his liberal opinions.

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Soliman, a former law student at the al-Azhar University referred to the prominent Sunni Muslim institution as the "the university of terrorism" because of its "extremist" underpinnings. He also scolded a group of Muslims who attacked a Christian church in Alexandria. Soliman went...
This article was published Thursday, 8 March, 2007 by AFP
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Blogger's Insult Earns Him 4 Years


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